They've got a core of Harris, Lee, Lopez, and Williams signed through to 2012. Suppose they get a high draft pick this year, then a mid-to-high draft pick in 2011; if they can manage the salaries appropriately for next year, they would have a heck of a good core and lots of room under the cap to build a very strong team for 2011-2012.

Then in 2012, they could re-sign Lopez and Lee, and sign a role player for the MLE. They'd still have Harris, Williams, the 2010 pick, the 2011 pick, and whoever they signed in 2011 with all the cap space.

However, one has to wonder: can the organization really afford to keep losing for that long?

They've got a core of Harris, Lee, Lopez, and Williams signed through to 2012. Suppose they get a high draft pick this year, then a mid-to-high draft pick in 2011; if they can manage the salaries appropriately for next year, they would have a heck of a good core and lots of room under the cap to build a very strong team for 2011-2012.

However, one has to wonder: can the organization really afford to keep losing so much?

NJ is awful in attendence win or lose, so i don't think it makes much of a difference if they were to wait an extra year.

I think cap space should be spent to sign players who fit what your want to do. It shouldn't be spent just because you have it. With that said, this fee agent class has the potential to be deep and there should be free agents available who fit the Nets system... I think sitting on a large amount of cap space while the team loses, only to have Melo reject the Nets offer which could be $30M less than the Nuggets offer is a tough sell to the Nets fans. Thorn better be careful with this.